lunes, 24 de noviembre de 2008

GO, GO, GO DANCER WHEELY RISQUé RIDE TURNS ON CITY STREETS


Call him the flesh pedaler.
Biker Andrew Katzander is taking pole dancing to the streets - on the back of his pimped-out pedicab.
The 44-year-old, a landscaper by day, pedals his racy rickshaw while a sexy dancer shimmies up and down a shiny 8-foot metal pole on a neon-lit platform attached to the back of the bike.
The PoleRider, as he calls it, is already stopping traffic. In one case, he said, cops briefly pulled him over in Times Square.
"It's all legal. The cops can't really stop us - I'm riding my bike and she's exercising," he said of flash dancer Marlo Fisken, 25, a pole-dancing teacher.
"I'm not a stripper. Because you have high heels and you're on a pole, it doesn't mean you're doing anything raunchy," she said. "It's fun, and it's a little bit exhibitionist."
Fisken hooked up with Katzander after answering an ad on Craigslist.
Katzander says he got the idea as he biked past the Hustler strip club in Midtown a few months ago. He wants it to become a $300 per hour party gag.
"It was like two and two makes five. It just came to me like that," said the Upper West Sider.
The avid mountain biker says he put his "crazy idea" to the test after he asked a couple of industrial-design pals from Pratt Institute to help him pimp his ride for the Halloween Parade.
The feedback was so overwhelming, he turned it into a business.
At an eye-popping $300 for the first hour (and $200 after that), Katzander hopes his PoleRider will be a hit at bachelor parties.
Coming soon, he's promised a car hitch for hot-to-trot clients, so customers can be pulled behind the pole and "can start partying right away," he said.

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